An old friend of Ol’ Blue Eyes owns the estate and has kept it ‘pure Sinatra’—down to the tryst-friendly secret passageway between bedrooms.
For a home brimming with Rat Pack lore, this Frank Sinatra party pad outside Palm Springs, California, has been a hard sell.
Sinatra commissioned the home himself in 1967, naming it Villa Maggio for his Oscar-winning role as Private Angelo Maggio in “From Here to Eternity.” The home become known as a party pad for the Rat Pack and his other celebrated friends. It has been “meticulously preserved” by the owners, according to the listing, and even little details—like the bold bathroom wallpaper and the built-in food processor—are original to Sinatra. The current owners are the only occupants since Sinatra. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow.)
Yet despite the home’s illustrious history, they’ve had some trouble unloading the place. It’s been on and off the market with a fluctuating price tag for about a decade, first popping up in the media in 2008 but appearing quietly on at least one exclusive real estate site, Hilton & Hyland, as early as summer 2004.
The estate just made its most recent appearance on Zillow, asking $3.95 million, down about 20 percent from its high of about $5 million.
Sinatra had donated the deed during a career renaissance in the 1980s to Loyola Marymount College, which sold it to a couple based abroad in 1989, according to the Desert Sun newspaper. That couple never moved in, and records indicate the property entered foreclosure before the current owners acquired it for $350,000 in 1998.
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